Research Catalog

Title

Buzzed : the straight facts about the most used and abused drugs from alcohol to ecstasy / Cynthia Kuhn, Scott Swartzwelder, Wilkie Wilson ; with Leigh Heather Wilson and Jeremy Foster.

Author

Kuhn, Cynthia.

Publication

New York : W.W. Norton, c1998.

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Additional Authors

• Foster, Jeremy.
• Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. wid
• Swartzwelder, Scott.
• Wilson, Leigh Heather.
• Wilson, Wilkie.

Description

317 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Based on the most current psychological and pharmacological research, provides a reliable, unbiased look at the use and abuse of legal and illegal drugs -- from alcohol, caffeine, and anti-anxiety pills to heroin, ecstasy, and special-K.

Subject

• Alcohol Drinking
• Alcohol Drinking
• Anabolic Agents
• Central Nervous System Agents > pharmacology
• Drugs of abuse > Popular works
• Hallucinogens
• Hallucinogens
• Hypnotics and Sedatives
• Hypnotics and Sedatives
• Illicit Drugs
• Narcotics
• Narcotics
• Nervous System > drug effects
• Nervous System > drug effects
• Psychotropic Drugs > pharmacology
• Substance-Related Disorders
• Substance-Related Disorders

Genre/Form

• Popular Work
• Popular works.

Note

• A duplicate copy of this title was part of the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection, but was not retained.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-273) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Alcohol -- Caffeine -- Enactogens -- Hallucinogens -- Herbal drugs -- Inhalants -- Marijuana -- Nicotine -- Opiates -- Sedatives -- Steroids -- Stimulants -- Brain basics -- Drug basics -- Addiction -- Legal issues.

ISBN

• 0393045889 (cloth)
• 0393317323 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^97017914^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library